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title: got mum lilies, the cat keeps sniffin them — Saving energy, pets at home and the ba… · tree and pragmatics
description: got mum lilies, the cat keeps sniffin them Test 10 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

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got mum lilies, the cat keeps sniffin them

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** mum lilies, sniffin

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This is test 10 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t10:1
# text = got mum lilies, the cat keeps sniffin them
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sniffin	sniffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | mum lilies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the cat | sniffin |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sniffin=Theme they=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Keep them away, lilies are deadly to cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t10:o1:1
# text = Keep them away, lilies are deadly to cats
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | lilies |  |  |  |  | to cats; deadly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine, cats don't eat flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t10:o2:1
# text = Fine, cats don't eat flowers
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | Fine cats | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the roots are a problem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t10:o3:1
# text = Only the roots are a problem
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the roots | a problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only dangerous to dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom:t10:o4:1
# text = Only dangerous to dogs
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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